and then redirect the payments and correspondence to to themselves
I fix my taxes so I always have to send some money to them on the Ides of April. I think things would be worse if I signed up for online service and then it was intercepted. At least without doing so, I can claim that any online correspondence must be bogus. Prove otherwise.
The Internet is for cat videos. Not real business.
I don't think the open-enrollment window is long enough to facilitate that interaction.
That really no longer exists.
"Call with your zip code
you send in your demographic info,
That's basically the zip code they keep bugging you about. And maybe a few details they can collect over the phone. The rest of the stuff, by mail*, is exactly how I signed up.
*I like mail. Because we have had decades of legal precedent around mail fraud formed. Wire fraud, as it applies to the Internet, not so much. Insurance brokers' attorneys will probably argue that wire fraud applies only to twisted wire pairs. And there's some fiber optics in there.
If they don't know where I'm getting it, how can they cut me off?
No, you will simply cease to exist.
Whoo hoo! No more income taxes.
Fine for grade school. But in middle/high school, those desks belong to whoever is seated in them next period.
"Ed tech is just big tech in a sweater vest," said Missouri state Rep. Tricia Byrnes (R),
Republicans. So out of touch. It's not a sweater vest. It's a hoodie, sagging jeans and a puffy jacket. Just like the other fent dealers in the parking lot wear. Sweater vests are for undercover FBI agents. All the smart kids know this.
And how many of these parents gave their children phones/tablets/computers with full internet/app access?
Gotta have that phone in case there's a school shooting.
Kids, you ever think about why your parents want to ring your phone when there's a nut running around with a gun and you are hiding in a closet?
people are forced to send their identity to an unaccountable non-government third party
Forced to? I use the US Mail for all dealings with the government. As far as they know, I have no Internet. If they mandate that, they can pay for the service and buy me a nice (top of the line) laptop.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
The more things change, the more they stay the same. - Some French guy.
Our younger kids have had school issued chromebooks since they were in kindergarten. They seem to mostly be used for roblox, mindcraft, and surfing "school safe" youtube. On the rare occasion that I see actual "school work" happening, it's more like a game than actual education. So we've redirected most of their after school time to team sports and playing outside. The world seems all stocked up on overweight children that are glued to games and screens. I'll make sure they know how to use computers, tablets, etc, but it's not going to be their constant companion or a viable alternative to actual social interaction and exercise.
"What's as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise,
socialism only works if costs are distributed among the society itself, and not just half of it.
Please come to Washington State and tell our legislature this.
True.
But I'll bet it has something to do with the db admin, having had previous experience in the position, just said to himself, "I'm not going to spend the rest of my career resetting passwords for a few hundred users too stupid to swipe a Post-it from the secretary."
Remember the scene in War Games where Lightman, sent to the principal's office, obtains the school's admin password from a sticky note on a desk?
That was over 40 years ago and not much has changed since then.
"Love your country but never trust its government." -- from a hand-painted road sign in central Pennsylvania
